{"id":69146,"date":"2025-01-27T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/new-zealand-treaty-principles-bill-maori-relationship-british-crown"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:36:38","slug":"bill-to-reinterpret-founding-treaty-with-maori-would-make-new-zealand-a-laughing-stock-mps-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69146","title":{"rendered":"Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with M\u0101ori would make New Zealand a \u2018laughing stock\u2019, MPs told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of principles that guide the relationship between M\u0101ori and ruling authorities<\/p>\n<p>A marathon public hearing into a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s founding treaty between M\u0101ori tribes and the British Crown began on Monday amid widespread outcry the proposed changes are unconstitutional, socially divisive and an attack on M\u0101ori rights.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill\">treaty principles bill<\/a>, which was introduced to parliament by the minor coalition Act party, seeks to abandon a set of well-established principles that guide the relationship between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> and ruling authorities in favour of its own redefined principles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/new-zealand-treaty-principles-bill-maori-relationship-british-crown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of principles that guide the relationship between M\u0101ori and ruling authoritiesA marathon public hearing into a bill that seeks to radically reinterpr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69147,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146\/revisions\/69147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}